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I will follow with great interest! Thank you Tim for posting!

Hi! First and most important don’t worry. I’ve been T1D for 40 years and have travelled a lot during that time (30 ish trips to USA). My hints and tips: Do take a letter stating you need to carry sharps. I’ve almost never been asked for it, except once at Charles de Gaulle (Paris), Gatwick...

Hi - I've never come across MiaoMiao until I read this (so have been googling since!). What do you think of it? I've been using Libre more or less full time for a few years now and would love to know your thoughts?

Hi, I’m happy to share my reasonably limited experience of marathon training / running? I’m MDI, T1 for nearly 40 years. Run two marathons over the last two years. I’m significantly slower than you though at 4 hrs 50 :-) I’d gradually reduced my carb intake over the year preceding but found...

To anyone that reads this thread - Diabeticliberty's kindness and help to a perfect stranger have been amazing. I can't thank him enough!

You are an absolute superstar and I'm messaging you right now!!!! Millions of thank yous!!!

Hi all I have been away on holiday for three weeks, back in the UK for five days and off to India (work) for a fortnight on Saturday night. I had stockpiled Libres to get me through the entire period. However, two failed me on holiday (one fell off after 45 minutes and one stopped reading...

Glucojuice I've never heard of - I've bought glucose shots (in a little bottle, 20g fast carbs) in the USA before but I'd understood they were not available in the UK? Great news if they are!

Brilliant advice, thanks all.

Just writing this has made me realise that I won't be exercising and I need to factor that in. I can deal with the change in time zones - I've done that before, but that has always been for trips under my own steam (ie I decided what and when to eat, and it was to countries not dissimilar to the...

Hi all T1 for 40 years, MDI (Insulard X 2 daily basal, Novorapid bolus using Libre to monitor.) I eat about 150g carbs / day which I know sounds a lot, but I'm pretty active and tend to run / exercise 500-600 kcals most days - without that my carb intake would be less @ about 100g. I have to...

I wonder why that didn't work for me. The last two sensors (both of which have not stayed on) I put that on first, then sensor, then Tergaderm. Apologies, I called it "pump adhesive stuff" in my post as I couldn't remember the name!!

I'm also having problems getting the Libre to stay attached. It is strange because I had no issues (except one) for the first ten sensors or so; however three out of the last three have all come off well before the two week period. One only lasted for 22 hours. Now, Abbott have been excellent at...

Hi, I'm T1 for 40 years so not sure how helpful my comments will be but here goes: For long runs I've found the Freestyle Libre the most wonderful tool. I always found stopping, with shaking hands, getting out strips (trying not to drop them!) and testing a bit of a pain, albeit essential. The...

Thanks Martin. I am surprised, I guess, that the Dawn Phenomen would have such a material effect!!

Tim, thanks for your help but catapillar understood what I meant - the (obviously not clear enough!) question was about the proportions and not the split itself. I feel like I should defend the diabetes team by saying that I never proactively asked for dosage/insulin help until a year ago and...

Hi all After 20 years on the same regime (Novorapid X 3 bolus) and 1 X Insulatard overnight, I switched about a year ago to split doses 2X Insulatard 12 hours apart. The advice at the time was to split my old 20 units Inulatard dose by 2 ie 10 units twice a day. After fiddling around with it...

Almost never am I asked for it, but I have been twice: once at Toulouse airport and once at Gatwick. As mentioned above I carry around a dog eared letter from the GP which is about eight years old.

I've seen and had excellent advice from @ElyDave on this very subject!

I really feel for you and experienced the same thing in both my pregnancies. Managed eventually really tight control with sub 5 HBA1C (coming off the back of no / terrible control before I found out I was expecting) but totally lost hypo awarenes which was ... Difficult. It did get better once...